Lingfan Jiang- Looking Outwards 03

The project that I am interested in is called the Silk Pavilion, done by the Mediated Matter group at MIT in 2013. The project mainly focused on the relationship between digital and biological fabrication in design. With silkworms’ spinning experiments, researchers are able to emulate silkworms’ behavior and digitalize it in computational tools.

It is fascinating to see how we could combine nature with technology, and how we could always learn from nature. Manmade objects would always have limitations to them, and we always make things based on things we know and understand. Although technology has developed so rapidly in the recent hundred years, nature, on the other hand, has much more profound knowledge than at any time in human history.